Now with over 10 plays under her belt and a lifetime in theatre, Canadian playwright Joan MacLeod has returned to The Banff Centre to revisit and remount her first opera libretto: The Secret Garden.
“Because I wasn’t a playwright when I wrote the libretto the first time around - my background was in poetry - I didn’t have such a strong understanding of dramatic structure as I do now,” says MacLeod, who originally wrote the libretto in 1985. “This version has been updated: we’re being more specific about the time it ta